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Anti-abortionists gather to oppose Judge O’Connor

September 4, 1981

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Type: Newspaper article

Author: Associated Press

Source: The Arizona Republic

Collection: The Kauffman-Henry Collection

Date is approximate: No

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DALLAS – Anti-abortion leaders urged Thursday that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sandra Day O’Connor remove herself from consideration or that President Reagan withdraw her name before Senate confirmation hearings begin next week. Nellie Gray of March for Life assailed Judge O’Connor ‘s nomination at a news conference beginning a 12- hour rally by a coalition of conservative Christians. She called the upcoming confirmation process for the former Arizona legislator “fatally flawed.” Miss Gray said that if Reagan and Judge O’Connor ignore her group’s d~~ds , “The Senate should recog01ze 1~ duty as an advising and consentmg_ body to bring the import.ant questions abeut the nomination before the hearings and to get the full facts before the Senate .” …

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